Posted on 11/01/2025 10:23:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Two of the biggest unions in the federal workforce — the American Federation of Government Employees and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association — are demanding that Democrats reopen the government now.
It’s not because they’ve turned MAGA or suddenly embraced the GOP budget: both unions are as progressive as ever. It’s because their members are working without pay. And the plight of these workers shows just how difficult it is for Democrats to wring concessions through shutdown tactics.
Because it’s illegal for federal workers to strike, these employees don’t have much choice. They are subject to what could be called an employer “lock-in”, where they are expected to work to maintain their employment status, their seniority, and whatever benefits they may have accrued. But so long as the shutdown continues, they will not be paid. This means that the people directing planes into runways are working six days a week for free. The army nurses caring for service members have gone unpaid for a month. The food inspectors, security forces, and all manner of safety and regulatory employees have spent the past four weeks without pay. It’s immensely unfair, unsafe, and for the unions representing them, it’s humiliating.
Worse than this, the shutdown puts their employer, the federal government, and their boss, Donald Trump, at a tremendous advantage. The longer the government can keep them from being paid, the higher the chance these workers resign to find work elsewhere. And shrinking the government workforce has long been one of Trump’s goals. In some sense, he can win through attrition what he planned to force through legislation.
Politically, liberals have sorted themselves into groups in support of or in opposition to the shutdown based on whether the move hurts Trump in the polls. This seems like a mistake. It may...
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“National Sovereignty”.
Something the corrupt U.N. is against in its lust for Global Totalitarian Gov’t.
Hope Trump can exploit this.
Well, they certainly traded the Teamsters Union for illegal, non-english speaking, Indian truck drivers. There was a reason the Teamsters Union president spoke at the GOP Convention for the first time that I can ever remember. I suspect they knew what was going on and wanted it stopped. The communists obviously ignored em. Trump didn’t
Democrats have chosen to die on the hill of illegal aliens.
They chose poorly.
Every single constituency betrayed because the top priority is destroying civilization.
AndDemoRatsjust keep getting a pass on the whole shutdown!🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤷♂️
Democrats lost the union vote a while ago.
Democrat policies are at best aimed to help union bosses, not the union members.
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